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Infectious rock song:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XdM_xhHgv5U

It’s le weekend?

Rumour has it…

On this day in January*, a poem, extraordinary,
was first published in the Mirror, by Mr. Edgar Allan Poe.
On many a heart it’s graven, for that poem was “The Raven”,
and its fame has spread so widely, so widely many people know,
if they’ve read a single poem, one written many years ago,
only one by E.A. Poe.

* 1845, in the New York Evening Mirror.

Women in Jism indeed

Apostrophe, my good man!

Please don’t forget the apostrophe.

Otherwise it’s Phrasing…

Well, some might have an inkling about Poe before having an appreciation of the simpsons. Tragi . My keyboard will not allow tragi plus a c . That alone is tragi . Fancy that.

Can a learned person inform me if they had Hawkens rifles in 1810?

Doubtful. The Hawken brothers opened their gun shop in 1815 but the earliest known Hawken rifle was designed and produced in 1823.

Ah, perhaps moderation, so called, as distinct from censorship, may have something to do with the hour. The wee hours tend to invoke hitherto unmentioned or even unmentionable sprites.

Dear oh
As distinct from profanities. To which I am inclined.
But, dear oh, an expression not mine own but that of a gentle woman whose strawberry red hair had simply faded away as did her her grasp of mundane reality.
Dear oh.

Peter Broelman.

Christian Adams.

Michael Ramirez.

Gary Varvel.

Matt Margolis.

Thank you Tom, always uplifting.

CNN has more breaking news.

Water is wet.
I repeat, water is wet.

The fix is in.

Mummy Dearest is not to blame. How could she be when she left her daughter, whom she hadn’t seen for ages, with a fellow junkie while she was off on a two day bender. Poor mummy.

JC re the $ going down, what do you think will happen. A while ago you thought that interest rates won’t be going up (for good reasons) but at a certain point they will no matter what the RBA wants. So where are we going?

Soros filth shovelling more money at the rats for the mid terms. Is the dirty old woman going to run again? What a fuckwit place San Francisco is, sending that filth to DC.

I thought West Virginia was the best place to move to, Jim Justice has sealed the deal.

Imagine if the Government was organising the Canadian truckers’ convoy.

Presented with minimal comment:

The totally normal women of Medium’s lady pages.

https://humanparts.medium.com/incels-debate-my-value-b405f72d556d

(I’m nearing 50 and I think I’m totally hot).

https://jacquetteaugh.medium.com/40-red-flags-for-dating-cis-white-men-given-without-explanation-ef2e6b25a858

(I ldon’t like real masculine men, I like soy boys who are total bitches and will enslave themselves to me when I pull the pin on the fat grenade).

The only question remaining is how/why did the shooting occur?

Cutting out carbs is key. I started eating them in 2020 and all the aches and pains returned (plus that other waistline thingy). Poor crotchety old lady. And that was with continuing fish oil and all the other raft of goodies.

Now I’m back on the straight and narrow and, voila!, joints all going swimmingly again. I’ve got the Beloved on a “regime” too – he’ll never have the lean and hungry look but at least he can afford to drop some belt notches.

The hardest thing was quitting alcohol in all its forms.

Inflammation. It’s all about inflammation.

Aflatoxins, anti nutrient proteins and alkaloids in legumes make me question if humans ought to eat them at all.

The hardest thing was quitting alcohol in all its forms.

You should try pure grain alcohol and rainwater.

Illusion

And they are trash. Read Margaret Trudos Memoires. If you like porn.

Just stay off the Woodstock cans calli.

But you need some carbs surely.

You should try pure grain alcohol and rainwater.

I only drink water that comes from an Alaskan glacier.
It’s rated on how many inuits die on the mission.

I knew you were lurking you bugger!

It’s around 20g a day, milt. Which is fine once you do all the low carb work-arounds. And there are a lot more ready made products in the shops should you feel a bit lazy and use them – breads, pizza bases and the like. Once you break through the low carb “fog” and the body adjusts, you feel just fine.

It’s like any addiction. And sugar is, in my opinion, the worst and most insidious.

Hemp oil.
Easy to add to your daily vitamin regime.

And sugar is, in my opinion, the worst and most insidious.

Totally agree. Not as hard to give up as I thought it would be. Chronic pain is a great motivator.

Europeans should consider how many calories their ancestors got from the ocean. The heavy plow wasn’t really adopted widely until the 11th century (and I have seen claims of that being later).

My life has ben defined by being dad and it’s over.

It’s never over, sfw. Lucky us.

But you need some carbs surely.

I went low carb about 10 years ago for a good couple of years. Cali rightly describes carbs as a “fog”, and you do suffer withdrawal, but once you’re out the other side it’s great, everything works better and you don’t need to worry about putting on weight, it just doesn’t happen.

Gotcha

Knuckles

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I bet she couldn’t do a simple PLS or cointegrated regression.

Would you lot give it a break!
I’ll have no crops left soon with all your diet doomsaying.
You just live too long.
My sheep eat plenty of carbs and legumes but don’t have a problem.
Now c’mon little Cats, down the drafting race and Farmer Gez will give you a ride on the nice truck.

I am shocked people put anything in tea.
Good tea needs nothing added.

Good tea needs nothing added.

Shut up, hippie.

FTB, re the mid/late life crisis, maybe not. I have a factory Yamaha racebike in the shed I’ve been working on but have almost lost interest, I bought a season pass for Falls this year but only because I normally do, not looking forward to winter.

They used to have a great word for how how I feel but it’s not used much anymore. ‘Ennui’ there’s only one thing for it, endurance, it does go away eventually (I hope).

A link from George Christensen’s latest email.

https://blog.canberradeclaration.org.au/2022/01/20/8-reasons-pfizer-cannot-be-trusted/

FTB, skiing is the best, keeps you fit, you’re always trying to improve, you need good mind/body control. Sitting on a beach is something I can’t understand. I’ve always raced something, cycling (3rd in Vic titles early 70’s) motorcycles and sidecars and skiing and anything else where you say “hold my beer”. The sybaritic life of a beach bum holds no appeal.

It’s grief at the loss, sfw. It takes a while. It will go.

You are already on the way – you have realised you are not quite “yourself”. But you will be. It’s just a matter of changing the viewing perspective from being “in it and close up” to being outside and looking on.

Parents who try to maintain the old relationship become a millstone around their child’s neck. And once the adjustment is made the new regime opens up with all its possibilities. It’s the kids who regress – yesterday my tough almost 40 yo daughter slipped and called her father “daddy”. It was rather sweet.

LOL.

A Clinton accusing others of grift.

Chelsea Clinton
@ChelseaClinton
Anti-vaxx grift going strong – why is Substack facilitating science denialists’ ability to profit from destructive lies (and comfortable profiting themselves)?
“Anti-vaxxers making ‘at least $2.5m’ a year from publishing on Substack” via ?
@guardian

What real world jobs has Chelsea Clinton ever had?

Has she dug a ditch? Made her own statistical analysis? Wired anything up? Built anything? Coded an app? Brokered a commercial loan? Run a retailing business? Has she ever invented a new drug? Has she ever actually defended anyone in court? Pulled a beer? Ever made food for paying customers? Written any original fiction or made any original, commercially successful art? Invested her own money in land development or start up businesses?

She is literally a useless princess.

Especially if you are planning to do a weights session.

Bench Pressing is a problem for Clinton critics.
Avoid benching at all costs.

Pure Cream added to hot coffee separates into a buttery looking mess of Fat’s, Oils and Esters.

Nice use of the grocer’s apostrophe Dick!

Use the stick blender with the cream or butter and emulsify the thing. Makes a great coffee.

These days, going to uni is falling in with the wrong crowd.

Hopefully he goes to uni & studies climate science.
Then gets a job as an ESG consultant.
One day, if everything lines up, he might just become a Change Champion.
You can only hope.

Vienna Coffee was served in all the coffee shops in Sydney in the late 50’s and early 60s. Never drank anything else.

George Weigel has one view of Putin. Here is another:

Putin is a wily fox and is not going to make something as hard to control as religion a centerpiece of his political showcase. But he has signaled time and again that he is Orthodox, and this quiet witness to faith speaks much louder than the political theater that other leaders have made of their churchgoing bona fides. By many accounts (including his own), Putin is a Christian man leading a Christian people. There is enormous strength that flows from this—geopolitical and, yes, otherwise.

To put it bluntly, if God will be on some side in the Ukraine mess, then wouldn’t that be the side of the Christian armies?

Whatever the reader thinks of this admittedly provocative argument—and let us grant pro arguendo that Putin is simply a cynical faker and doesn’t really believe—contrast it with what the NATO side is offering. NATO is a strange, foreign name, and commands little allegiance apart from the at-a-remove allegiance of soldiers fighting for their own member countries. In other words, if war comes, very few people are going to go out to fight for NATO (another big Putin advantage, incidentally). But if you put the pieces of the puzzle together and look at it sidelong, you see something else: a big chunk of what used to be called Christendom.

It’s not a perfect match, of course. For one thing, Turkey’s in NATO now, and the Ottoman Empire was once very much not part of Christendom. But you get the idea. NATO is Christendom, but secularized. NATO is the Christendom that largely stopped believing in Christ, or in anything really, long ago.

The United States, for its part, has, in many ways, gone even farther down the post-Christian road than Europe has. If NATO is rejiggered and hollowed-out Christendom, then the globalist-run militarist monstrosity in the Pentagon is a devil that never had religion in the first place.

This deracinated Christendom tag-teaming with a pentagram-shaped war machine, the pair enervated by nihilism and depravity, and in the thrall of a hateful and destructive ideology, is now proposing to go up against a Christian powerhouse with a score to settle with history.

Cassie: A friend of mine went skiiing as a nine-year-old at Buller. First downhill run, he lost control, hit a chairlift pylon, broke his leg and spent the rest of winter in plaster.

Next year, same run, same pylon, same result.

I’ll mention no names because he’s now a thoroughly decent journalist (one of the few) and detests skiiing with a passion.

My ski injuries are two: On the train to Perisher, the steward brought brekkie to the cabin, raised the tray to my bunk and managed to tip a pot of scalding tea all over my chest. Serious burn that required silverdene cream from the slopes’ first aid person, who commented that he didn’t see many burns.

The other injury was to my ego when I taught my young son the rudiments of snowploughing and parallel turns. By the end of the day he was skiiing backwards and delighting in giving me the finger as he swooped past.

He still skis. I don’t. Like ice skating, the best thing about the activity is taking those bloody boots off and finding the bar.

This is a particularly timely reminder to anyone who’s listening that, historically, the greatest of powers have never won a land war against Russia. The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the 17th Century, The Great Power (at the time) Sweden in the 18th Century, The Grand Armee of Napoleon in the 19th Century and the might of Germany’s Panzer divisions in the 20th Century. The Poles negotiated and survived as a strong force to lead the relief of Vienna in 1683, The Swedes were beaten militarily and were never again a force in Europe. Both Napoleon and Hitler had to retreat with catastrophic losses. So let’s make it five centuries in a row!
The EU has been the protagonist in this crisis, hiding behind the skirts of NATO. In the current geopolitical climate, Russia and the US are natural allies, possibly temporarily. Post Brexit EU wouldn’t be able to invade Tristan da Cunha. Heck they can’t even defend Lampedusa.

Cheer up, SFW, and heed Calli’s advice. There’s more wisdom in her words than you’ll find in a whole shelf of ‘family’ books in the self-help section.

Lol, areff.

I charge mate’s rates.

Skiing.
Memories of pinching yourself in bed after a session to make sure you’re really there and not passed out in the snow.

Some concern expressed about Nancy Pelosi running for Office again.
As I’ve pointed out before, jobs in the House go on a seniority basis.
At the moment, Seniority is:
1.Pelosi
2. Steny Hoyer
3. James Clyburn
No way in the world does the DNC want Clyburn as Speaker or House Majority Leader, so Pelosi and Hoyer have to keep soldiering on in their Eighties.

Elon has been thoroughly red pilled these last few years.

Elon also has had all his kids with his wives by AI.
Is that ResPilled too?

Skiing is difficult and there are more than a few wankers. just ignore them and work hard and you’ll be rewarded. It’s not a skill that you will ever master completely, there’s always more to learn.

Correct.
I’ve yet to find a sport (or any competitive activity) that doesn’t have its own wankers circle.

March is phase II of the nephew tradesman project.

He has hand tools, now looking at benches, jigs etc and higher end hand tools.

Christmas will be cordless power tools (phase 3 and the final phase).

He will be able to start year 9 with a full apprentice’s kit (general construction).

I am just giving him options. I know you can be successful without any qualification, but you are locked out of employment types. If he goes to uni and doesn’t do STEM, he will get a talking to.

I am sure he can charge megabucks in Canberra for fairly simple work. So many useless, overpaid civil servants.

radii

taxiing

You’re welcome.

@Dot
Well yes, point taken. I’m going to plead that it was a local skirmish. LOL

You should try pure grain alcohol and rainwater.

And deny them your bodily fluids.

That last bit is essential.

This is a particularly timely reminder to anyone who’s listening that, historically, the greatest of powers have never won a land war against Russia.

In 1904-5 the Japanese Army took the Tsarist Russian Army out to the woodshed and taught them a very painful lesson. That plus the better known naval victories caused the Russians to sue for peace and nearly caused the collapse of the Russian Empire.

But yes Russia is tough to beat. Or was before nukes were invented. I disagree that the US and Russia should be allies since Putin is quite imperialist in the west. He shouldn’t be going after Ukraine though as he’s got as much of the low hanging fruit he’s going to get. Better strategic prospects are now Belarus and Kazakhstan, given the unrest in those countries. A nice bit of black ops stimulation and he just might get the locals to overthrow their dictators and invite Russia in as a saviour.